The UNDP project, a companion of  JICA project,  was funded by the Government of Japan through Japan's Human Resources Development Fund, and implemented by the PV lab/SSRC in close collaboration with the Ministry of Electricity and the Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities. The project objectives are:
- Raise the local capacities in various aspects of operating, maintaining and managing of the PV systems.
-  Integrate the PV systems into the national electricity system with a suitable financial mechanism.
-  Create the most suitable institutional framework for effective decentralized electricity systems in rural areas.
-  Create small scale local cottage industry based on excess energy in summer (medallions, stone powder plateau).
-  Create local technical capacity for the servicing of PV systems.
 
The project addresses the following three legs of sustainability:
Environment:  The installed systems are clean sources of energy.  They replaced the utilization of kerosene or gas lamps, thus improving cleanliness of air in rooms and health condition of people.

Economics:  In the four villages, the provision of electricity and water from a sustainable source of energy for the communities contributed to poverty alleviation.  The introduction of small scale cottage industry in Zarzita provided a new activity in the daily life of the village and an alternative source of income for the villagers.
Social sustainability:  The improvement of the livelihood of the people in the target villages was a result of introducing electricity and drinking water.  Surveys by JICA study team showed an increase of literacy, productivity of homework.

Results/impact of the project :
- Train the local inhabitants to run the installed PV systems in the three villages with the individual systems (Fedre, Katoura and Kalif).
- Strengthen the technical capacities of the PV lab/HIAST staff who in turn provided training to electricity and water authorities' staff for the operation, maintenance and management of PV systems in rural areas. The authorities are managing the PV systems in the four villages.
- Implement a financial system for collection of fees from beneficiaries for the water pumping and desalination services.
- Set up a system for the collection of fees from beneficiaries  in return to the electricity produced by the PV systems.
- Create an example of alternative sources of income using the surplus electricity to promote the small-scale cottage industry.
-  The success of these systems opens the possibility and helped establish enabling conditions for replicating the experience in remote areas such as Al-Badia.
- Several donors from bilateral and multilateral organizations expressed willingness to contribute in similar future interventions in case a move towards the right direction is made.

-  Catalyze decision-makers interest in rural energy and decentralized energy systems, which led to, inter alia, the preparation of Renewable Energy Master Plan.